Muse Group: Enshittifying everything it touches
Starting in 2017, Ultimate Guitar – then a guitar tabs website developed from a Kaliningrad office – started going on a shopping spree: They acquired MuseScore, an open source notation program, Audacity, the Audacity audio editor, Hal Leonard, a sheet music publisher, StaffPad, AmpKit, and others. Today, they’re known as Muse Group, have abandoned their Russian…
Corporations are agentic AGI
There are some good arguments in favor of understanding corporations as artificial, intelligent meta-(or super-)organisms: The idea that corporations can be understood as an AI isn’t new – I got introduced to it by Charles Stross in his “Dude, you broke the future!” talk. They are slower to act than computer-based AI, but in return,…
How to balance copyright and the freedom of the arts
Copyright law is unfair and a bit silly. We can fix it to be the tool creators deserve. And now might be the time to get ready to take action.
Even the institutions are waking up to the fact that copyright law is unfair
The balance between the freedom of the arts and rewarding existing creators with exclusive rights is manifestly wrong
Getting Ollama to run properly
Today I tried to do something which apparently is silly: Use Ollama on my Windows machine to run gpt-oss:20b, use it in VSCode’s Copilot-chat, and also use it on WSL for my Linux (web) projects. This is, apparently, difficult. To document my findings instead of a “nvm fixed it”, here’s the stuff I did: That’s…
Thermite as grid-scale energy storage (and gemstone production method)
Thermite is a fancy name (actually a trademark) for a quite simple reaction: Just take some rust (iron oxide) powder and some aluminium powder, smash them together, and watch the fireworks. Or to put it into a formula: iron(III) oxide + aluminium → iron + aluminium oxideFe2O3 + 2Al → 2 Fe + Al2O3 This…
City Villages: Desirable public housing for a greener future
We are currently facing several issues: I believe that we can perhaps not fully resolve, but help all three issues with an idea I call “City Villages”. What is a City Village? A City Village is a concept to combine the benefits of a city (everything is nearby) with the benefits of a village (you…
Refutation of Video Games Europe’s position paper on Stop Killing Games
Video Games Europe has published a position paper to the Stop Killing Games initiative. Many of its arguments are missing the point. Recommended prior reading: TL;DR Point-by-point refutation Video games companies put significant investment into creating and developing the bestinteractive entertainment and experience for their passionate player bases.The right to decide how, when, and for…
A response to Video Games Europe’s statement on the Stop Killing Games initiative
As we all know, when it comes to games, the dialogue is rarely level-headed. Gamers might be one of the most passionate crowds out there, and once the rally cry has brought the wheels in motion, they’ll keep turning for years to come. With that in mind, I’d like to address Video Games Europe’s statement,…
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